Case Study : Simmons Care Services

Providence Home Care LLC is a home health care service institution that is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This home health care agency was established in 2002. Providence Home Care LLC offers home care and private duty services. Some of the home health services include wound care, hospital prevention protocol, skilled and psychiatric nursing, monitoring chronic illness, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, patient and caregiver education, and more. Providence Home Care LLC has been awarded for being a National Top 500 Agency. This home health care facility is also the winner of the Quality Excellence Award.

Jones Regional Medical Center is a huge academic health center with 900 beds and are known for its research and teaching hospitals. Additionally, the IT staff at Jones supports 300 applications and 12,000 workstations. The center uses Technology Med (TechMed) for their admitting system. The system includes registration, inpatient charge, payment entry, master patient index, admission, hospital billing, and more. The TechMed system has been accessible since 1998; Jones is beginning to plan a replacement of this systems because of the fragility of the software (Wager, 2013).

Carson Tahoe Behavioral Health Services offers comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services for seniors, adults, adolescents and children suffering from mental health and substance abuse issues. Their Category is Outpatient or Partial Hospitalization Mental Health Facility. This Facility uses a holistic approach to treatment.

Fit Adult Care Home LLC is a residential care home located in the beautiful city of Gresham, Oregon, which is Multnomah County. Our historic community is the fourth largest in the state with wonderful restaurants and shops. Gresham is a wonderful place to live with lots of events and activities for family and friends to enjoy when visiting.

Correct Care Solutions, LLC. (CCS) is contracted to provide medical, dental and mental health services to the correctional population housed at the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO). The SOW agreement between MCSO and CCS is dated November 1, 2008. Per the agreement, a quality assurance plan requires an “outside” correctional health professional to conduct a peer review of inmate health care services with documentation of deficiencies and plans of corrective actions on an annual basis. The American Correctional Association (ACA) was contacted to conduct a compliance audit of the inmate health services operation for SOW agreement between MCSO and CCS.

Mrs Gale is a 70 year old widow and retired unskilled worker. The patient lives alone and relies on her son to provide basic care, medication and meals. Mrs Gale has a history of weight fluctuation owing to lifestyle but is currently at risk of malnutrition due to Parkinson’s disease. Mrs Gale shows signs of early dementia and suffers from poor mobility and pain caused by arthritis. Mrs Gale also has mild depression triggered by loss and has become socially isolated. All names have been changed as per the Nursing and Midwifery Council confidentiality guidelines (2008).

SC received phone from Pa’s dtr starting that she spoke with provider agency Accucare regarding changing Pa’s schedule from a split shift to one shift starting at 5:00 AM and ending at 9:00 AM. SC informed DCW that she is not authorized to make any change to Pa’s care plan or schedule. DCW was furious demanding to know why she is not authorize to make changes to Pa’s care plan since Pa’s she’s Director of Care. SC explained to DCW that she is not Pa’s director of care because Pa’s is directs own care and moreover she cannot be the direct care worker and the Director of Care because both role conflict with each other. DCW stated that she is only being paid for 4 hours but is constantly assisting Pa’s managing her health and navigating services/resources,

After her time at the habilitation program, she moved to Colorado. Her first job in Colorado was at the Rise School of Denver, which “provides services to children with and without disabilities through an inclusive education model.” During her time at the Rise School, the executive director of Adams Camp reached out to her and provided a job description that immediately captured her interest. She rapidly transitioned into the Adams Camp environment and found her home. Jordan has the opportunity to serve 350 families every year in both Adventure Camp and other therapeutic programs that is offered by Adams Camp. But, it hasn’t all been an easy road for her at Adams Camp. She voiced, “With an aging population, we are tasked with creating age appropriate services for all. The other challenge is finding more empowering opportunities for our population.” Most people with developmental disabilities can live a long and fulfilled life, but their special needs vary by age. At the moment, Adams Camp prioritizes younger clients in order to prepare them properly for their futures. But because Jordan is so dedicated to improving the lives’ of others, she

Hello Rachel, you did a very good job in your post by explaining Mr. Jones care coordination planning in detailed. As you explained that his daughter can assist him in using diabetic log application and app to manage his communication with his doctor’s appointments. Since Mr. Jones has a memory problem, this is very good method that will help him to keep logs of his medication and appointments.

Support Services. This service is only available to those with severe mental illness or a developmental disability. The purpose for this

It was in 1977 that the United Healthcare United Health group was founded by Richard Burke. The headquarters of the company are in Minnetonka, Minnesota. This organization works towards the betterment of people's health, it help them in living a healthy life by providing them with the kind of health care that would be best for them. The main focus of United Healthcare which is a major division of the United Health group is to provide the people with better health benefits and coverage.

The Fortune 500 company I chose is CVS Health. I chose this for a few different reasons. First, I recently had to visit the Minute Clinic in the CVS store twice within the last month. Secondly, I chose CVS because it is part of the health care initiative and I work for a healthcare company.

Provide advice and recommendations to minimize risk and enhance Piedmont Healthcare compliance with required laws and regulations.

As the company continues to grow at a tremendous rate, the organizational structure became more complicated for the managers to maintain. Additionally, the Association is unsure of how to deal with the growth, and continue to preserve their company philosophy of “people supported first” at the same time. When the company was small their informal way managing the support service was a great fit, however, with more people constantly being supported, a more structural way of overseeing the expanding support service infrastructure needed to be established.

Columbus Regional Health (n.d.) serves 10 counties in Southeast Indiana. The demographics include a predominantly Caucasian population of approximately 300,000 people (Economic Opportunities through Education by 2015, n.d.). In southeastern Indiana, about 140,000 individuals have employment, and 15% of them, who are over the age of 24, have a bachelor’s degree (Economic Opportunities through Education by 2015, n.d.). Approximately 30% of the high-school students drop out in this mainly rural area with a flat population growth (Economic Opportunities through Education by 2015, n.d.).